American Roots
Number of colonies established by the British in North America.
President during the Trail of Tears.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Name of the time period after the Civil War from 1865-1877.
What is Reconstruction?
Period following Reconstruction where things appeared prosperous on the outside but were corrupt on the inside.
What is the Gilded Age?
Inventor of the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
Idea that it was the will of God for the United States to expand from the East to West coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Native American group impacted by the Trail of Tears.
Who were the Cherokee?
What is the 13th?
This railroad united the east coast to the west coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This was a gift from France in celebration of American independence
What is the Statue of Liberty?
President in office when the U.S. acquired the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Cherokee nation went to the Supreme Court against this state.
What is Georgia?
Lincoln's plan for bringing the southern states back into the Union.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
First African American female millionaire.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
Technology that helped show people the major problem of poverty.
What is flash photography?
Country Louisiana Purchase was bought from.
What is France?
Location of reservations that natives were sent to during the Trail of Tears.
What is Oklahoma?
This "Bureau" helped set up schools and assist African Americans after the Civil War.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
Most European immigrants came to the U.S. through this location in the early 1900s.
What is Ellis Island?
Colonel George Waring saved thousands of lives by improving sanitation conditions in this place.
Where is New York City?
This Ordinance in 1787 established a system for admitting new states.
What is Northwest?
Chief of the Cherokee during the Trail of Tears was John ____.
What is Ross?
This guaranteed citizenship to African Americans and prohibits states from passing laws to take away a citizen’s rights
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Andrew Carnegie migrated from this country
What is Scotland?
In 1911, there was a terrible fire that killed around 150 people at this factory
What is the Triangle shirtwaist factory?